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Apple has a history of giving the US government whatever user data they want, lying about it, then when it leaks publicly they are able to say 'Well we couldnt tell you because it would have been breaking the law, sorry about that'. Have an example, of when it leaked that apple was secretly syphoning off all push notifications to the US government: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
Fundamentally not the same thing. Notifications aren't encrypted. Apple has made no claim that they're secret from the govt. Apple has very loudly and prominently and specifically stated that their encrypted is ecrypted and not even available to apple. They list which portions of icloud this applies to and not. Huge different between an omission and a large, positive lie.
Re: U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
#331They reason they have 'very loudly and prominently' proclaimed that they will never break encryption, is to make the general public believe their data is safe with Apple. Its purely a marketing stunt. The push message syphoning to governments is only one of many ways they willingly hand over data to governments on request.